In April 2021, OpenAI announced DALL·E 2 https://
openai.com/dall-e-2 and detailed their transition toward using diffusion models. It felt like the dream was coming true! You could prompt it for a photo of a cat wearing a red hat, and get a cat wearing a red hat!
GENERATIVE AI
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OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 and the Rise of Diffusion Models
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BigSleep Colab Notebook Shared by advadnoun
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Then just a week later @advadnoun shared another Colab notebook named The BigSleep.
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DeepDaze: Text-to-Image Generation via Colab
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A few weeks after the release of the OpenAI papers, @advadnoun shared DeepDaze, a Colab notebook that generated images from text. Originally shared here:
https://x.com/advadnoun/status/1348375026697834496
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AI and Synthetic Biology Will Triple Value Creation in 30 Years
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Calling all PESSIMISTS… just take a look at this graph… its an incredible story of value creation… of course its not evenly distributed, and there's real work to do there, but its still a hugely positive story. AI + synbio will triple this curve in the following 30yrs
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Stability AI x CogX Research Conference September 12-14 O2
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3 weeks to go! Join the research revolution at Stability AI x CogX from Sept 12-14 at the O2. Unlock your potential through cutting-edge generative AI innovation: We have a few tickets up for grabs, apply today! #stabilityai #stabilityxcogx #aicommunity #airesearchers
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Student challenges university over AI chatbot academic integrity case
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I had another email from another student who was featured in this article “Zimny, 20, said she plead her case to her professor, the head of the school’s political science department and a university dean, to no avail.” https://
washingtonpost.com/technology/202
3/08/13/ai-chatgpt-chatbots-college-cheating/
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Stable Diffusion Anniversary: One Year of Generative AI Innovation
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One year ago, we co-released @StableDiffusion
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LLMs Environmental and Educational Harms Demand Immediate Action
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AI community I’ve been a part for ten years! Who needs “sentient” AI when LLMs use SO MUCH water now & harm students bc people think they’re cheating & steal IP? Who needs long term “potential harms?” The REAL harms are HERE NOW. Ban LLMs until they don’t harm people & planet.
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QLoRA Support Added to Lit-GPT for All LLM Models
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Just added QLoRA support for all LLMs in Lit-GPT: Llama 2, Falcon, Pythia, StableLM, and all others! You can use it via `python finetune/lora.py –quantize "bnb.nf4"` to save significant GPU memory. I've ran a few more benchmarks on the Gh PR here: https://
github.com/Lightning-AI/l
it-gpt/pull/275
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LLM Water Consumption Crisis Demands Immediate Regulation
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Agreed. So are you in? 🙂 Let’s ban LLMs until they stop using water. Come on! Let’s get called Luddites together & hear myriad answers that all boil down to people saying, “But the LLMs make me money or famous NOW. Don’t make me be responsible!” #BanLLMs Gary? @GaryMarcus